Quotes
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Peri: Manoeuvred off course? You mean it isn't the Tardis malfunctioning again?The 6th Doctor: Malfunctioning? Malfunctioning? Malfunctioning! After all the work I've done on it?
The 6th Doctor: That's a time distortion, as if there's a time machine nearby.
Peri: A Time Lord?
The 6th Doctor: Or a Dalek.
"Peri, how would you like to meet a genius? Yes, yes, of course, but I haven't changed the course of history. Indeed, I am expressly forbidden so to do. But George Stephenson will." ~ The Sixth Doctor
"Excentric? Me? Preposterous!" ~ The Sixth Doctor
"Occasionally, just occasionally, your smugness infuriates me." ~ The Sixth Doctor
"He wears yellow trousers and a vulgarly coloured coat, but tread carefully - he's treacherous." ~ The Master
"Really, do I look like a man who would wreck machines?" ~ The Sixth Doctor
"You jest, of course. I'm indestructible. The whole universe knows that." ~ The Master
"What's he up to now? It'd be something devious and overcomplicated. He'd get dizzy if he had to walk a straight line." ~ The Rani (on the Master).
"You and the Doctor are a well-matched pair of pests. You bring nothing but trouble." ~ The Rani
The Master: Ah. But then, as yet you've not been appraised of my purpose in being here.
The Rani: To destroy the Doctor. You've never had any other. It obsesses you to the exclusion of all else.
"They're carnivores. What harm have the animals in the fields done them? The rabbits they snare, the sheep they nourish to slaughter. Do they worry about the lesser species when they sink their teeth into a lamb chop?" ~ The Rani
"For once will you forget the cross-examination and just go?" ~ The Sixth Doctor
"You disappoint me. A scientist and you're not thinking objectively. Davy, Faraday, Telford and others. Over twenty men of genius. Have you no conception of what we could achieve if we control them? Harness their genius, and this planet could become the platform for the most devastating power in the universe." ~ The Master
Peri: How come you know the Rani?
The 6th Doctor: Same way as I know the Master.
Peri: But he's an exiled Time Lord.
The 6th Doctor: Exactly. Two of a kind.
"Incredible. Absolutely incredible. A Tardis linked to a Stattenheim remote control. The Rani is a genius. Shame I can't stand her. I wonder if I was particularly nice to her, she might? No. No, no, of course not. " ~ The Sixth Doctor
"Oh, no thanks. I've given them up. Guns can seriously damage your health, you know." ~ The Sixth Doctor
The Rani: Experiments are always subject to the unexpected. They can be capricious.
The Master: Capricious? Turning mice into monsters?
The Rani: A marginal error, quickly corrected.
The Master: Time Lords didn't think so.
The Rani: Petty spite on the part of the Lord President, just because they ate his cat.
The Master: Hm. Took a chuck out of him, too, I remember.
"They should never have exiled you. They should have locked you in a padded cell. Now move, before I forget my abhorrence of violence and use this." ~ The Sixth Doctor
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Trivia
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Aside from introducing the character of the Rani, a Time Lord chemist played by Kate O'Mara, "Mark of the Rani" is notable for being the last story of the original Doctor Who series directed by a woman (Sarah Hellings). The next occasion of a female director would come in 2007, when Hettie MacDonald directed the episode "Blink".
While it's believed that all Time Lords were recalled to Gallifrey at the start of the Last Great Time War, and then locked into the Void when the Doctor used the Moment, the possibility of the Rani returning to the revival series has been a source of fan speculation since 2005, with virtually every female character from Rose Tyler to Donna Noble to Lucy Saxon to River Song being considered possible Ranis-in-disguise.
The Rani was inspired by neurochemist friend of the writers, Pip and Jane Baker, who held a very secular view of life. The plot thread about the Rani's experimentation with the sleep centers of the human brain was inspired by an article concerning sleep receptors the writers had read in The New Scientist.
Nicola Bryant injured her neck while sleeping. As a result, she would have to wear a brace for the remainder of the shoot - except while the cameras were actually rolling - and was in some discomfort.
The music score for this story was provided by composer Jonathan Gibbs. John Lewis was originally hired to compose the score, but a sudden onset of illness - which ultimately resulted in his death - prevented him being able to finish the work and forced the production team to give the assignment to Gibbs just after Lewis had completed scoring the first episode. Lewis' score for the first episode was included on the DVD release.
The writers had envisaged the story as being filmed at an open air museum in South Wales, and had included elements such as overhead coal tracks and a switching station on the rails. It was filmed at Blists Hill Open Air Museum at Telford in Shropshire. Eric Saward ad to amend the action to reflect the location.
With the appearances of George Stephenson and Lord Ravensworth, this was the first televised Doctor Who story to feature an historical figure as an onscreen character since The Gunfighters in 1966.
Colin Baker did all of his own stunts.
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Links (Watch on DailyMotion.com)
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Part 1
Part 2
Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani (Story No. 140) DVD is available at Amazon.com, or download this story from iTunes, or watch via streaming at Hulu Plus
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